The main thing at the moment

• On the night of May 17, Russian troops fired rockets at Lviv and a military facility on the border with Poland.

  In both cases, probably the Ukrainian air defense.

• According to the Ukrainian military, the Russians are strengthening their positions in the Kherson and Mykolaiv regions, and the offensive has stopped.

• 266 Ukrainian servicemen were evacuated from Azovstal and exchanged for Russian prisoners.

• The satellite recorded the fourth place of mass burial in Mariupol.

• Ukrainian troops have reached the border with Russia in the Kharkiv region.

• Ukraine controls only 10% of the Luhansk region.

• Russia continues to use banned weapons to attack Mariupol.

Territorial control of Ukraine on May 11, 2022

Independent verification of information about hostilities provided by officials of various parties is not yet possible.

What happens on May 17th

Night shelling of Lviv

Residents of Lviv reported first two explosions, and then several more, TSN reports.

The head of the Lviv regional military administration Maksim Kazitski wrote that the air defense system probably worked, so the missiles did not hit the city.

The Russians also fired rockets at a military facility in the Jaworów district near the border with Poland, but the air defense also worked here.

Authorities are asking residents not to ignore the air raids.

The Russians are not conducting offensive operations in Kherson and Mykolaiv regions

Instead of attacking, Russian troops continue to strengthen their positions.

This was reported in the Ukrainian operational command "South".

It was also reported that Ukrainian missile and artillery units, along with aircraft, struck more than 100 strikes on the positions of the invaders.

As a result, an ammunition depot, 75 soldiers and almost 20 units of equipment were destroyed in Chernobayevka in the Kherson region.

“In the Odessa region, two enemy naval anchor mines, which were brought to the coast in stormy weather, were neutralized, removed by specialists of the naval detachment and destroyed by detonation in a safe place.

The enemy's naval group in the northwestern part of the Black Sea consists of two cruise missiles and six large landing ships, "the South Operational Command said.

Refugees from the war

More than 6 million people have fled Russia since Ukraine's invasion, according to the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees as of May 12.

According to the Office, more than 3.27 million people left for Poland, almost 895.8 thousand people - in Romania, more than 583 thousand - in Hungary.

According to the UN, more than 785,000 people were deported to Russia.

Ukrainian authorities claim that the occupiers are forcibly removing Ukrainian citizens.

About 8 million Ukrainians are now internally displaced.

The population of Ukraine (including Russian-controlled territory) is about 44 million people.

What is happening in Russia

Russia's Justice Ministry proposes to ban lawyers from "unfriendly countries"

In the future, on the basis of this order, it is planned to deprive the status of active lawyers.

Currently, 247 lawyers from Ukraine, the United States, Great Britain, France, Germany and other "unfriendly" countries are registered in the register.

S7 airline canceled flights to the west and south of Russia, as well as to the Crimea until June and September

This was pointed out by RIA Novosti.

The airline closed sales for flights to Anapa, Gelendzhik, Krasnodar and Simferopol until June 23, and for flights from Moscow to Belgorod, Bryansk, Voronezh and Lipetsk - until the end of September.

Rosaviatsia closed flights to each of these airports on February 24, the day of Russia's war against Ukraine, and then extended the ban more than ten times.

Now the flights are formally closed until May 13.

The Russians began to trust television less

According to the Accelerate research, on March 17, 33% of respondents named television as the most reliable source of information;

as of April 27, 23% of respondents thought so.

Residents of small towns decreased the most (from 34 to 24%), and in Moscow and St. Petersburg - from 27 to 21%.

At the same time, trust in social networks and Telegram for 1.5 months increased from 19 to 23%.

Confidence in online media and official websites also fell from 26 to 23%.

Belarus' participation in the war

Belarus has allowed Russia to use its territory to attack Ukraine from the north;

Russians use Belarusian airfields for flights and Belarusian sites for rocket attacks on Ukrainian cities.

At the same time, Belarusians are fighting on the side of Ukraine in various formations.

A battalion named after Kastus Kalinouski has been created.

Belarusian army near the border with Ukraine

The Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces, First Deputy Defense Minister of Belarus

announced the beginning of the second stage of the inspection of the rapid reaction force.

According to him, as part of this stage, battalion and tactical groups have moved to the Western and North-Western operational areas, and to strengthen them - air defense units, missile forces and artillery, which will ensure their combat operation.

According to Gulevich, units of special operations forces were deployed in three tactical directions of the southern direction (to the border with Ukraine. - RS).

How the world reacts

The G7 agreed to strengthen Russia's economic and political isolation

The G7 foreign ministers have vowed to strengthen Russia's economic and political isolation, continue arms supplies to Ukraine and work to reduce the global food shortage caused by the war.

This is stated in the statement of the ministers.

Diplomats from Britain, Canada, Germany, France, Italy, Japan, the United States and the European Union have also pledged to continue military and defense assistance to Ukraine "as needed."

"We will never recognize the borders that Russia has tried to change through military aggression, and we will continue to support our participation in support of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine, including Crimea," the ministers said.

Latvia has expanded the list of undesirable persons from Russia

The Latvian Foreign Ministry added another 102 people to the list of undesirables from Russia for "expressing active support for Putin's decision to invade Ukraine."

They are banned from entering the country indefinitely.

Among others, the list includes actors Alexander Pankratov-Black and Vladimir Gostyukhin, director Yuri Kara, poet-songwriter Alexander Shaganov, musician Konstantin Bubnov.

At the end of March, Latvia included 31 cultural figures in the list of undesirable persons, many of whom took part in the Crimean Spring rally-concert dedicated to the anniversary of the annexation of the peninsula.

The EU will give Ukraine 500 million euros for the purchase of heavy weapons

European Foreign Minister Giuseppe Burel has announced plans for the European Union to provide an additional 500 million euros to Kyiv.

This money will go to purchase heavy weapons (heavy weapons usually mean air defense systems, ships, aircraft and armored vehicles).

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